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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 02, 2010
Filed:
Sep. 10, 2004
Bradley D. Kindig, San Diego, CA (US);
Robert F. Kleemann, San Diego, CA (US);
Sean Robert Sullivan, San Diego, CA (US);
Michael J. Kogan, San Diego, CA (US);
Sean Cornell Joshlin, San Marcos, CA (US);
Mark Alan Laffoon, San Diego, CA (US);
Daniel Davidson Baird, Carlsbad, CA (US);
Ameen Hikmat Abed, San Diego, CA (US);
Nathan Lavar Clegg, San Diego, CA (US);
Philip Mansiel Pellouchoud, San Diego, CA (US);
Kevin Sitze, San Diego, CA (US);
Amir Doron, San Diego, CA (US);
Bradley D. Kindig, San Diego, CA (US);
Robert F. Kleemann, San Diego, CA (US);
Sean Robert Sullivan, San Diego, CA (US);
Michael J. Kogan, San Diego, CA (US);
Sean Cornell Joshlin, San Marcos, CA (US);
Mark Alan Laffoon, San Diego, CA (US);
Daniel Davidson Baird, Carlsbad, CA (US);
Ameen Hikmat Abed, San Diego, CA (US);
Nathan Lavar Clegg, San Diego, CA (US);
Philip Mansiel Pellouchoud, San Diego, CA (US);
Kevin Sitze, San Diego, CA (US);
Amir Doron, San Diego, CA (US);
Yahoo! Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
An online music purchasing system and method is disclosed, in which a radio service operates on a user's computer and is configured for receiving and playing digital radio representations of media content in near real-time in a radio session. A content server is configured for serving the digital radio representations of media content to the radio service, and a radio sequence server is configured for serving a sequential list of currently-playing and previously-played media content of the radio session to the radio service. An account server is configured for receiving a signal indicative of a user's desire to purchase a file of one of a currently-playing or previously-played media content. A download manager is configured for downloading the file to the user's computer according to the signal indicative of the user's desire to purchase the file.